Support for curtains



Jan. 12 1926.

-C. E. HORTON SUPPORT FOR CURTAINS Filed April 25, 1923 a auuu Patented Jan. 12, 1926.

UNITED srarss 1,569,324 cram-a5,

CLEMENT E. HORTON, CEWATERBURY, Co ECTi UT, ASSIGNOR To BERBECKER &

ROWLAND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WATERVILLE, CONNECTICUT, A COR- PORATION OF CONNE TICUT.

SUPPORT FOR, CURTAINS;

Application filed April 23, 1923. Serial No. $33,827.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLEMENT E. HORTON, a Citizen of the United States, residing in WVaterbury, in the county of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports for Curtains, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to an improvement in curtain supports of the type employed for supporting relatively heavy portieres and the like across the openings between rooms.

In such situations, the curtain or curtains are usually supported from a traverse rod which is arranged across the upper part of the opening and just below the lintel. It has been proposed heretofore to support the curtain from a series of frames each of which is mounted on a pair of disc-like rollers adapted to rest and travel on the traverse rod. These prior constructions have proved unsatisfactory in various respects, particularly as to the facility with which the curtains are moved along the traverse rod. The disc-like rollers will run easily only when they are in proper alinement with the traverse rod, but owlng to the nature of the load the rollers sustain and the manner in which the rollers are moved, they are frequently thrown out of alinement with the traverse rod to such an extent that they do not turn on their axes and are moved along in frictional engagement with the traverse rod, thereby imposing unnecessary exertion on the person shifting the curtain or portiere.

The object of the invention is to produce a curtain support of the above type provided with improved bearings which will travel easily on the traverse rod, although the curtain support may be considerably out of alinement therewith. To this end, the frame of the curtain support is provided with a pair of ball or spherical bearings so mounted as to have a free running contact with the traverse rod in any position given to the frame by any usual or even violent movement of the curtain. The invention is more fully described hereinafter and is particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

The preferred form of the invention is illustrated in the drawings in which Fig. 1

is a side elevation, partly in section, of the improved curtain support, showing it mounted on a traverse rod; Fig. 2 is a section taken along the line 22 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a top plan of the Curtain support.

The improved curtain support, as illustrated in the drawings, comprises a pair of vertically disposed curtain supporting members 5 and 6 arranged to straddle a traverse rod 7. The curtain supporting members are provided with holes 8 through which are passed means for securing the curtains 10 in place. The curtain supporting members are connected together at their upper ends by a cross-bar 11 which is positioned above the traverse rod 7. The cross-bar 11 is in the form of a V with the apex of the V pointing downwardly toward the center of the traverse rod, and the arms 12 and 13 of r the crossbar forming equal angles with a line drawn through the apex of the V and passing through the center of the traverse rod. The curtain supporting members 5 and 6 and the crossbar 11 together constitute the frame of the curtain support. This frame is mounted on the traverse rod so as to travel freely thereon by means of a pair of ball or spherical bearings 14 and 15.-

Each spherical bearing is journaled on a stud 16 secured to the undersides of the arms 12 and 13 of the cross-bar. The

spherical bearings are bored diametrically.

They are held in place by riveting over the lower ends 17 of the studs 16. This is sufficient to hold the bearings in place, because all the thrust is upward against the enlarged bases 18 of the studs which bear against the undersides of the arms 12 and 13 and are secured thereto by passing the stems 19 of the studs through holes in the arms and riveting over the ends 20. The studs 16 are spaced apart a suiiicient distancehaving regard to the diameter of the bearings 14 and l5to cause the bearings to contact with the traverse rod about opposite the middle of the studs, as clearly indicated in Fig. 1. This arrangement; of the parts permits the spherical bearings to turn freely even when the frame of the curtain support is considerably out of alinement with the traverse rod. Thus the shifting of the curtain or portiere along the traverse rod may exertion.

Having thus described the invention What I claim as new is 1. Means for supporting draperies from a traverse rod, comprising a frame adapted to straddle the traverse rod and having its upper portion of Vshape, a pair of studs secured rigidly to and depending from the frame and arranged at right angles to the V-shaped portion thereof, and spherical anti-friction members rotatahly engaged upon said studs and adapted to bear upon the traverse rod at opposite sides thereof.

2. Means for supporting drapery from a traverse rod comprising an inverted substantially U-shaped frame adapted to straddle the traverse rod and having its arms constituting means for attachment of draperies thereto, the bight portion of the frame being of V-shape With the vertex disposed toward the traverse rod, studs rigidly secured to the arms of said V-shaped portion and extending in outwardly and downwardly diverging relation, and spherical bearings rotataloly engaged upon said studs for engagement with the t averse rod at opposite sides thereof.

CLEMENT E. HORTON. 

